Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chertsey

CANDIDATE : Gordon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Gordon is a solicitor whose special interests are in local government, Rent Restriction Acts, and industrial law. He was elected a member of Kingston Borough Council in 1937 and was leader in 1946. He is a member of the Fabian Society and solicitor to the southern district of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers. Born in 1915, he was educated at London University.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Farnham

CANDIDATE : Shannon

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. P. Shannon was educated at the City of London School and in Australia, joining the Australian Army in 1914 and serving in Gallipoli and France. He was badly wounded in 1918, and later returned to Australia as a sheep farmer. Back in England in 1934 he became an official of the Ministry of Labour. For a time he edited an international youth newspaper printed in seven languages. Serving in the last war, he was invalided out in 1941, became labour manager for a radio firm, and deputy chief for civil defence in the North-West Region. He was elected to Blackburn Borough Council in 1945, resigning to join the Ministry of Labour staff in London.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewes

CANDIDATE : Beamish

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. Tufton Beamish, who was born in 1917, succeeded his father, Rear-Adm. T. P. H. Beamish, in 1945, as M.P. for Lewes. Educated at Stowe he was commissioned in 1936 and served in Palestine 1938-39. He was a company commander and won the M.C. at Dunkirk, and was at Singapore when it fell to the Japanese, .escaping with others in a small boat to Sumatra. After serving on Gen. Slim’s staff in India, he returned to his former unit in 1943 in North Africa. He also fought in Italy and was wounded.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rugby

CANDIDATE : Dance

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Dance, born in 1907, was educated at Eton. He has business interests in London and Birmingham and used to farm 500 acres in Warwickshire. He was chairman of the Rugby Conservative Association and has also been chairman of the Kineton branch of the British Legion. During the war he served with the 2nd (Queen’s Bays) Dragoon Guards (attaining the rank of major), in France, the Middle East, and Italy, and also made a lecture tour of factories engaged in tank production.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chippenham

CANDIDATE : Eccles

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. David Eccles became M.P. for Chippenham in 1943 at a by-election, and has since been one of the more prominent Opposition back – bench speakers. Previously associated with the Central Mining Corporation in London and Johannesburg, he took over the Spain and Portugal departments of the Ministry of Economic Warfare on the outbreak of war. Later he negotiated a trade agreement in Madrid and became economic adviser to the British Ambassadors in Madrid and Lisbon before being transferred to the Ministry of Production. Born in 1904, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kidderminster

CANDIDATE : Tolley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L, Tolley, who was born in 1888, entered Parliament in 1945. An engineer, he was educated at an elementary school, and joined the Labour Party in 1917. Mayor of Kidderminster 1942-43, he has been 26 years a member of the town council, besides serving as president of the national savings, food control, and civil defence committees.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Richmond (Yorkshire)

CANDIDATE : Moore

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. E. Moore, aged 54, was educated at Doncaster, and is now a manufacturer and exporter of electro-plate. He speaks nine languages. An extra-mural lecturer of Sheffield, he lectured to troops before and after the war. He is secretary of Yorkshire Liberal Association and chairman of Yorkshire Liberal Candidates’ Association, and contested Somerby in 1945.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Don Valley

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Taylor, began work in the mines at the age of 14, and led a strike at Barnsley main colliery at the age of 21. A member of the Yorkshire District Committee of the Communist Party and chairman of the Barnsley branch, he was elected secretary of the Brierly (Ferry Moor) branch of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1942. He is 40.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shipley

CANDIDATE : Hirst

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. A. N. Hirst was born in Leeds in 1904 and educated at Charterhouse and St. John’s College, Cambridge. He is chairman and managing director of a Leeds firm of chemical manufacturers. He serves on 19 national and local committees, including that of the Federation of British Industries. He was in the Army during the war and on the Administrative Staff of the 21st Army Group.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cardiff North

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Captain D. A. Jones is an accountant with a long record of public work in South Wales and Monmouthshire.

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